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Yeah swing by about 1030am. I'll pm ya with directions and my cell.

I have a TFI you can try before going out a buying one.

Not without special tools. I don't have them. My dad does but his place is in WY, and I'm too busy this weekend to get them. I can bring a spare good TFI to work with me tomorrow if you want to try that. How are your grounds and battery? I just went thru a very similar issue(including the flat spot ...

Yeah I wouldn't want you doing it in that state either. I'll get the TSBs out tomorrow If I can. Hopefully they'll be agreeable to looking at them.

Time for a double post :) Here are to image captures of the 2 TSBs I could find quickly. http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff241/Milehighxr/TSBs/TSB910301.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff241/Milehighxr/TSBs/TSB890517.jpg I had sent a CD of the all the TSBs that I have for the XR and Scorpi...

What kind of seals should they be using? The shop had to special-order them and I wonder if they ordered the wrong ones. . . . Thank you. :) There's 2 types, and it is dependent on which pistons you have. One is an O-ring, and the other is a "double lip" design. When I ordered my ATP seal...

Sounds like morning sickness to me. Replace the low reverse servo seal with one for a C-6 and if it doesn't go away you need new seals, again cuz they used the wrong ones, or screwed up the install. Even when it is cold outside once evenrything is warm you should not have a slow engagement. I'll see...

yeah, i still haven't hooked up either my act or brake wires yet on my la3. as for the brake wire, i have heard that it lets the ecu know to turn up the idle so it doesn't stall. however i have not stalled yet. what makes more sense to me would be that the brake wire is there to let the ecu dump th...

What a waste of a good XR. It's for sale on IMON. I threw up in my mouth a little just looking at it.

The City of Ocean Shores PD had a Mid '80s Camaro as a "DARE" car, it had been impounded in a drug bust. That XR could be the same type of cop car... In the past, Camaros and Mustangs were offered with "police spec" packages, but I suspect the sales volume was never sufficient t...

With the way the VOC's have been reduced in some automotive paints over the last several years, I wonder if/how they'll make a distinction. Some of the automotive specialty paints are already equivalent (or less) to what you buy in Home Depot, from a volatile component standpoint. So back to my poi...

I don't know about you but recently I've been carded when buying paint. No jolk Same here. Never carded, but when I was younger my dad always had to buy spray paint for me because I wasn't able to. I guess kids huff it these days? I'll admit, some spray bombs smell good, but to huff it?? Umm, I'll ...

Yeah maybe police impound...

I really know nothing about auto-boxes but it seems the 5R55 would bolt to a C3-based BH giving a 5sp option. Baumann says thay are planning a TCS for it. Not sure how much you'd gain though; as you say the 5R55 seems to have slotted in an effectively new 2nd gear ratio, 1st and "HIGH" re...

I think you're right about the W. The thread I pointed to uses 5R guts in ALOT of places that even the 4R parts were weak in. If you were to use anything other than a single solenoid A4LD, you need to have a way to control the solenoids. The A4LD-E is the 2 solenoid trans, and the 4R begins the whol...